[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0014942]: New function to escape any character in a string

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14942 
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Reported By:                ajohnson
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   14942
Category:                   Functions/func_strings
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0.6 
Regression:                 No 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2009-04-20 15:46 CDT
Last Modified:              2009-04-20 15:54 CDT
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Summary:                    New function to escape any character in a string
Description: 
I was having issues with ODBC functions in Asterisk.  Asterisk was
interperating a comma as a delimiter, even if it was contained in a
variable that I was passing as a value to the function.  This may be
correct, but I needed a function to escape commas inside of variables I was
passing to an ODBC function.

The new function's name is ESCAPE(<escape-chars>|<string>).  It will
escape every instance of the characters specified inside of the given
string.

I am not a C programmer and I apologize for not uploading this as a diff
against trunk.
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 (0103490) tilghman (administrator) - 2009-04-20 15:54
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14942#c103490 
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Why not just quote the argument? 

Issue History 
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2009-04-20 15:54 tilghman       Note Added: 0103490                          
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